Premiership Rugby 21/22 - Rd 13

[TRF_Olyy]

No citing for Genge

 

[will311293]

I prefer "Pests"

Locusts?**

*Insect reference
*Always on the move

I prefer the name "winners" ...... for once....

Tommy Reffell ended the night with 22 tackles 0 missed

He is some player tbf.. amazed that Wales/England haven't had him in the training camp already. Reminds me of George Smith in some aspects, cracking tackler, great over the ball and reads the play really well off the ball

 

[BPM]

There was some talk of him being on Eddie's radar before. I think he's just unfortunate that there's a lot of good English flankers and unless he's willing to move back to Wales, he's always likely to be behind other options who are already there.

 

[will311293]

There was some talk of him being on Eddie's radar before. I think he's just unfortunate that there's a lot of good English flankers and unless he's willing to move back to Wales, he's always likely to be behind other options who are already there.

It would be a shame if never capped but may just be that way. He's behind a long line in both countries and hard to overcome that.

Good for Leicester mind.

 

[Geordie]

So confirmed that the falcons withheld around £100k of England payments to the 4 players...and used the money as a "Bridging gap"

The players themselves made the England RFU aware of it.

Poor show by the falcons, though they are citing the cancelled Sale game as a factor.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

RFU are gonna **** Newcastle so hard over this

 

[Not Mike Brown's Sock]

RFU are gonna **** Newcastle so hard over this

Swap them in the Champ for Doncaster and scalp all their players

 

[Geordie]

RFU are gonna **** Newcastle so hard over this

Apparently not the only club that has done this....

Does that suggest more than us are in financial troubles.

We are citing the Cancelled sale game as the problem....but jeez if one cancelled game is enough to push us over the edge...thats a massive concern.

 

[Geordie]

Swap them in the Champ for Doncaster and scalp all their players

Half the Doncaster team are our academy lads!

 

[Mr Burns]

Every team in the league have financial concerns but we are probably the one closest to being royally ****** by any lost revenue. We have a small fanbase and our owner isn't particularly wealthy plus with Covid cancellations/the gap between our championship season ending and the next season we have been playing catch up commercially ever since.

I think I saw that last season we were operating at roughly half the salary cap which paints. A picture of how we have to cope compared to other teams.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

I think I saw that last season we were operating at roughly half the salary cap which paints. A picture of how we have to cope compared to other teams.

Absolutely zero percent chance this is true

 

[Mr Burns]

Absolutely zero percent chance this is true

That was from a staff member so might be an exaggeration but there was no way we were close to the £6.4m cap last year, we shed a lot of players before the championship and then all took pay cuts during the pandemic.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Baggsy Radwan no returns

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Baggsy Radwan no returns

Talk about a glow up,
From a club not paying wages to a club paying so much they're about to get relegated for it

 

[will311293]

Baggsy Radwan no returns

Shotgun Blamire and Chick If Barbeary won't play Hooker then we want Blamire.

 

[Not Mike Brown's Sock]

Hepburn and Sutherland both on 3 week bans.

Where can the graphics be found? Hepburn feels lenient

 

[TRF_Olyy]

They'll be on here, but not updated yet:

RFU

www.englandrugby.com

3 does seem lenient, presuming 6 weeks reduced by half for having a pulse,

6 weeks would've been about right IMO - further cementing my broken-record-cause for binning off ban reductions

 

[BPM]

Hepburn and Sutherland both on 3 week bans.

Where can the graphics be found? Hepburn feels lenient

I imagine Hepburn's mitigation was probably Simmonds' involvement. If it's just one of them, the incident probably wouldn't have occurred.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

My guess is incident is mid range 10 weeks
Knocked down for remorse
Knocked down for Guilty
Knocked down for Simmonds mitigation

 

[Which Tyler]

My guess is incident is mid range 10 weeks
Knocked down for remorse
Knocked down for Guilty
Knocked down for Simmonds mitigation

maximum of 50% off for mitigation; so if he got 3 weeks, then the maximum initial sentence was 6 - low end